Sentence examples for delicate persuasion from inspiring English sources
The accompanying phrases resonate every time – "delicate persuasion", "little falter", "the pleasure of the possible", "highly wrought".
It took many weeks of delicate persuasion from Steve Peters, British Cycling's team psychiatrist, before she agreed to continue — just because the 2012 Olympic Games would be held in London.
Anyone who happened to drop by Mr. Nemazee's office overlooking Central Park in the last two weeks would have caught a glimpse of the delicate art of persuasion in big-money political fund-raising.
Portraying a shopkeeper's daughter of unquenchable will power in the new revival of "Hobson's Choice," which opened last night at the Atlantic Theater Company, Ms. Plimpton takes firm but gentle charge of both production and audience, turning domestic tyranny into a delicate art of persuasion.
Persuasion, like music, is a delicate craft, and can be undercut by just a few discordant notes.
Jane Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (both 1817) portray with delicate satire and keen perception the fashionable life of Bath about 1800.
It falls to me, naturally, to organise the collection in the first place, which necessitates the delicate deployment of all my skills of persuasion, extortion and threats of violence to extract cash from my reluctant work colleagues.
The behind-the-scenes persuasion is the latest example of Rubio's delicate play in his push for comprehensive immigration reform.
Insightful like Don, a delicate flame flickers between them as she tells a fable to show that "kindness, gentleness and persuasion win where force fails".
"Ninety-nine percent should be persuasion, persuasion, persuasion".
